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by ss108 5y ago
I feel like this contrasts with what I thought your position was based on your previous posts. As far as this particular post goes, I'm not sure I really disagree with you lol From your previous posts, I thought you were not okay at al
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by ss108 5y ago
TIL that, despite the fact that I vote and write and discuss things with my friends, my opinion doesn't exist because I don't share it on Twitter or Facebook. come on man
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by ss108 5y ago
> Understand this: limits on free speech are far more dangerous to society than allowing fringe extremists to spread their ideas. I just don't see the evidence to back this claim up. Granted, if I really think about it, I am not dir
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by ss108 5y ago
Assuming the factual premises of what you're saying are true, the problem with the lab-leak thing was that it was bandied about by Trump and his supporters as some kind of excuse for his poor handling of the pandemic (which began befor
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by ss108 5y ago
You think he really wants to help the environment?
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by ss108 5y ago
I don't think we will get to that level of maturity, and part of the problem is unbridled free speech itself lol In contemporary society, it seems that the kind of free speech we have seems only to lead to greater stupidity by helping
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by ss108 5y ago
It's not a "utility". It's a social media site that is arguably a net negative for society irrespective of what kinds of moderation policies it has.
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by ss108 5y ago
Wouldn't the prudent course be to avoid making oneself a political character at all?
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by ss108 5y ago
As the other poster said, our right to speech is not something a corporation needs to abide by, it's something the government needs to abide by (at least in the US). I see your point below about basically that we should have a more exp
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by ss108 5y ago
> These bad conditions have often revolved around a lack of freedom of expression, especially in the modern era, where this has been extensively documented. Yeah, I just don't think this is true. I think a lot of progress has been a
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by ss108 5y ago
Yeah, I agree with you generally (I don't think Congress is that important in this context; it's more the Executive Branch), I just don't see how that supports the above poster, unless one assumes that a Republican is going t
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by ss108 5y ago
It's intellectually lazy to ignore the very different power of the internet and the very different social context in which the relevant technologies are developing. For example, the Gutenberg press didn't let literally any idiot i
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by ss108 5y ago
The US wasn't like this in terms of free speech right off the bat (in both legal and cultural terms), and your historical analogies aren't well-supported. Stalin was able to kill a lot of people due to, inter alia, a lack of what
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by ss108 5y ago
I get what you're trying to say, but a) I just don't see a strong case for why the fundamental proposition that it all must be allowed is something we should all hold; b) I don't think, even given/assuming the desirabili
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by ss108 5y ago
> If he declines to do so, it will be damaging to his business with government. How would failing to reinstate Trump's account be damaging to his business with the government? Wouldn't it matter whether the Federal government i
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by ss108 5y ago
> Free speech absolutism is possible and is beneficial I don't think we have evidence to support this. Pursuant to the last major thread on the topic, I was thinking further about it, and realized that the vast majority of progress
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by ss108 5y ago
Is Python not sufficient for that? I am unfamiliar with PHP, wondering what benefits it has that might lead someone to choose it for a task today.
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by ss108 5y ago
What about the useful aspects of being able to reach/keep tabs on your kid, have it available for them for emergencies, etc? Is it still possible to buy a flip-phone or something for such purposes? I don't have a child, but I woul
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by ss108 5y ago
"one of the biggest problems for me is im never even sure if im buying the original design or a knockoff, which totally sucks." Potential use-case for NFTs? :thinking:
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by ss108 5y ago
I agree that a lot (though not all) of the issues people want to pin on race are really just about class, but would you deny that there is at least a correlation between race and class? Or that law enforcement has a bad racism problem? To b
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by ss108 5y ago
I've lived in NYC for some years, I don't think people are as rude or aggressive as the stereotype goes. If anything, it's "friendlier" in the sense of it being easier/more normal to just talk to random people.
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by ss108 5y ago
Could be anywhere from North Africa. The possibility that the person is from the Levant from among a family who decided to spell their name in a Francophone way cannot be eliminated.
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by ss108 5y ago
I'm more on your side here, but in the typical "cancel culture" scenario, the type of stuff people are trying to silence (e.g. re illegal immigrants) is much less nuanced and much more aggressive. The analogue would not be &q
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by ss108 5y ago
This is a good point as well.
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by ss108 5y ago
...so you agree that the Republican Party has morphed into an outright White, Christian nationalist, identity-based party, but think that identity politics on the left is somehow worse? I would say "disingenuous" is on point here.
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by ss108 5y ago
That phrase is from the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution. The way the Constitution works is that the Federal government only has those powers it is granted, which are limited by items such as the First Amendment, which does
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by ss108 5y ago
I see where you're coming from. I just think that if we have to resort to civil institutions beyond courts to enforce something, it's not really a "right". It's some other kind of good or value. So maybe my definiti
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by ss108 5y ago
Because that side simply has economic power.
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by ss108 5y ago
> But in actual intellectual discourse, if someone presents a point of view which is founded on a discredited idea, then we just ignore them. We do not show up at their talks and try to prevent them from communicating with others. I (for
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by ss108 5y ago
The "right" only exists insofar as it is legally protected.

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